Minuscule 568
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| form = Minuscule | number = 568 | image = Minuscule 568 (GA).jpg | isize = | caption= Epigram about Matthew the Evangelist and verses about the cross | name = | sign = | text = Gospels | script = Greek | date = 10th century | found = | now at = Russian National Library | cite = | size = | type = Byzantine text-type | cat = V | hand = | note =
Minuscule 568 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 189 (in the Soden numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 10th century.{{Cite book | last = Aland | first = K. | author-link = Kurt Aland |author2=M. Welte |author3=B. Köster |author4=K. Junack | title = Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments | publisher = Walter de Gruyter | year = 1994 | location = Berlin, New York | page = 80 | isbn = 3-11-011986-2 }}
Description
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 259 parchment leaves (size ). It has ornamented head-pieces. The writing is in one column per page, 24 lines per page.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numerals are given at the margin, and the τιτλοι (titles) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons.
It contains Epistula ad Carpianum, the Eusebian tables, tables of the κεφαλαια before every Gospel, Synaxarion, Menologion, and pictures.{{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | publisher = J. C. Hinrichs | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 204 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n217/mode/2up
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the Kak (with hesitation). Aland placed it in Category V.{{Cite book | last1 = Aland | first1 = Kurt | author-link = Kurt Aland | last2 = Aland | first2 = Barbara | author-link2 = Barbara Aland | others = Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) | title = The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism | publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company | year = 1995 | location = Grand Rapids | page = 139 | url = https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt | url-access = limited | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}} According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents the textual family Kx in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20.{{Cite book | last = Wisse | first = Frederik | title = The Profile Method for the Classification and Evaluation of Manuscript Evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke | publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company | year = 1982 | location = Grand Rapids | page = 63 | url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/63 | isbn = 0-8028-1918-4 | url-access = registration
History
The manuscript was presented by consul of Syra, Sandrinus. In 1851 it was donated to the Imperial Public Library in Petersburg by Sandrini, the consul of the Syros Island.
The manuscripts was examined and described by Eduard de Muralt (along with the codices 565-566, 569-572, 574, 575, and 1567), then by Kurt Treu.
Scrivener labelled it by 879,{{Cite book | last = Scrivener | first = Frederick Henry Ambrose | author-link = Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener |author2=Edward Miller | title = A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1 | publisher = George Bell & Sons | year = 1894 | location = London | edition = 4 | page = 275 Gregory by 568.
Currently the manuscript is housed at the Russian National Library (Gr. 67) in Saint Petersburg.
References
References
- [[Hermann von Soden]], ''Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte'' (Berlin 1902), vol. 1, p. 145.
- Gregory, Caspar René. (1908). "Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament". J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung.
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